pixcil 0.3.0

Pixel art editor
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Pixcil

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Simple pixel art editor with (almost) infinite canvas (online editor).

Pixcil image

Features

  • Simple and intuitive UI
  • (Almost) infinite canvas
    • The center frame region is exported as the final image
    • You can make use of the blank space as a temporary working buffer, color palette, etc
    • If settings are enabled, the continuous vertical frames are treated as layers and the successive horizontal frames are regarded as animation frames
  • Support PNG file format
    • Created images are saved as PNG files (with additional metadata)
    • You can load existing PNG files and use Pixcil as a dot-by-dot PNG file editor

How to build

Web

You can use Cargo to build Pixcil.

// Build.
$ git clone https://github.com/sile/pixcil.git
$ cd pixcil
$ cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown
$ ls target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/pixcil.wasm

// Start an HTTP server and visit the root page in your browser.
$ cd web/
$ start-your-favorite-http-server

Windows

$ cargo run --release -p pixcil_windows

Other platforms

Pixcil is created using Pagurus. So other Pagurus supported runtimes can be used to run (with some restrictions):

// Run Pixcil using SDL runtime.
$ git clone https://github.com/sile/pagurus.git
$ cd pagurus
$ cargo run --release -p sdl_runtime -- /path/to/pixcil.wasm